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Author: Marlynne Hopper
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9789251057308
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEffective national food control systems are essential for food security, public health, consumer protection and international trade. This guide has been developed by the FAO to assist countries to systematically identify the capacity building needs of their food control system through a simple five-step process.
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 73
ISBN-13: 9789241546058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2022-09-16
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9240057684
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe new WHO Global Strategy for Food Safety 2022-2030 was adopted by the Seventy-fifth World Health Assembly in 2022. The updated strategy addresses current and emerging challenges, incorporates new technologies and includes innovative approaches for strengthening food safety systems. The target audience includes policy-makers (national and subnational governments), technical authorities/agencies responsible for food safety, academia, food business operators (FBOs) and private sectors, consumers, civil societies, UN agencies and WHO staff. This new document was prepared with support from the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on Food Safety: Safer food for better health. It reflects feedback received through consultation process with Member States and governmental institutions, United Nations agencies and other intergovernmental organizations, academia, NGOs, private sector entities, and individuals working in public health and food safety. The vision of the draft strategy is to ensure that all people, everywhere, consume safe and healthy food to reduce the burden of foodborne diseases. With five interlinked and mutually supportive strategic priorities, the draft strategy aims to build forward-looking, evidence-based, people-centred, and cost-effective food safety systems with coordinated governance and adequate infrastructures. This strategy contributes to the achievement of the SDGs and will be reviewed in 2030 when the world will reflect upon the progress made towards the SDGs.
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2023-10-19
Total Pages: 78
ISBN-13: 9240021221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlobally, there is growing recognition of foodborne diseases as a public health priority. From a public health perspective, foodborne diseases are largely preventable, and can be controlled through effective food safety systems that evaluate hazards along the food chain, from production to consumption. An integrated food chain surveillance system can detect and monitor foodborne bacteria, including antimicrobial resistant bacteria, throughout the food chain. Whole genome sequencing (WGS) has the potential to change how we detect and monitor microbial hazards in the food chain, as well as how we assess, investigate and manage food safety risks. It is anticipated that this new technology will help reduce the burden of foodborne diseases, given its advantages over previous low-resolution typing and detection methods. The purpose of this manual is to provide guidance on: - The capacities that need to be in place before WGS can be useful for foodborne disease surveillance and response, - The options for implementing WGS; and - How to implement WGS within existing surveillance and response systems. The present module introduces WGS and its relevance to foodborne diseases; it defines the minimum capacities needed before a country can implement WGS for outbreak investigations and routine surveillance; and includes a section to assist countries in selecting an option for implementing WGS within their existing surveillance and response system.
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 2019-01-09
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9251309566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis document supports stakeholders in translating the Second International Conference on Nutrition into specific country-specific actions, through 24 thematic sheets, ranging from food loss and waste prevention to social protection for nutrition.
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Publisher: IICA
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Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9292480790
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Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9789251047705
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis publication reports on the first Global Forum on food safety regulation which was held in Morocco in January 2002 and included delegates from 110 countries and 17 international organisations. Its purpose was to exchange information and experiences regarding food safety issues of international importance. Aspects considered include: inspection techniques; risk management; capacity building; consumer involvement in food safety; and communication issues. There was unanimous agreement that future fora of this kind should be held, and a provisional meeting scheduled for early 2004.
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Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2021-10-07
Total Pages: 47
ISBN-13: 9240028374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNational food control system plays a pivotal role in protecting the health of consumers and ensuring fair practices in food trade. When we are able to assess performance of the system in a comprehensive way, it can identify priority areas of improvement and plan sequential and coordinated activities to reach expected outcomes. To demonstrate good performance of the system gives an opportunity to Member states for new markets, to improve trading relationships and to build stakeholder confidence domestically as well. FAO and WHO jointly developed a comprehensive tool to assist Member states in assessing the effectiveness of national food control system. The FAO/WHO Food Control System Assessment Tool comprises 162 assessment criteria under 25 system competencies over 4 Dimensions. This introductory booklet is designed to facilitate application of the assessment tool, and competent authorities are able to have an overview by this booklet before they initiate the assessment. This booklet includes several interactive buttons and links to better browse the document. Interactive tools (such as texts underlined in orange) includes also “pop-up” additional notes which can be opened clicking on the symbol +.
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Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2021-11-08
Total Pages: 46
ISBN-13: 9240031677
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt Seventy-third World Health Assembly, WHO was tasked by Member States to update the WHO Global Strategy for Food Safety under the resolution WHA73.5, ‘‘Strengthening efforts on food safety’’. To advance this work, WHO convened the first Technical Advisory Group (TAG) meeting on the update of WHO Global Strategy for Food Safety from 8 to 10 February 2021. The meeting was attended by WHO Multisectoral Actions in Food Systems (AFS) headquarters staff, WHO regional advisors for food safety, 24 TAG members, and staff from the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) as observers. The overall objective of the first TAG meeting was to collect experts’ advice on the consultation paper developed for discussion on this meeting and the update process of the WHO Global Strategy for Food Safety. This meeting generally agreed on the role of food safety in the global development agenda, the drivers of change for the future of food safety, the aim and the vision, and the proposed five strategic priorities. The meeting highlighted the need to foster global and regional cooperation. While recognizing the strategy should be Member State oriented, it was agreed to enhance WHO’s leadership and give more visibility to WHO’s role in supporting Member States to strengthen food safety and lower the burden of foodborne disease.
Author: Onsando Osiemo
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2016-09-15
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1315526603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFood safety has become a major concern for consumers in the developed world and Europe in particular. This has been highlighted by the recent spate of food scares ranging from the BSE (mad cow) crisis to Chinese melamine contamination of baby formula. To ensure food safety throughout Europe, stringent food safety standards have been put in place ‘from farm to fork’. At the same time, poor African countries in the COMESA rely on their food exports to the European market to achieve their development goals yet have difficulty meeting the EU food safety standards. This book examines the impact of EU food safety standards on food imports from COMESA countries. It also critically examines both EU and COMESA food safety standards in light of the WTO SPS Agreement and the jurisprudence of the WTO panels and Appellate Body. The book makes ground-breaking proposals on how the standards divide between the EU and the COMESA can be bridged and discusses the impact of EU food safety standards on food imports from poor African countries.
